Protect your Planet

In Brief

Protect your planet is an asteroid defender game using the Unity game engine. Unfortunately every time I boot the game up it crashes after the Unity splash screen. I've tried adjusting the compatibility in various ways, but nothing worked for me; so, unfortunately at this time there will be no review from me today apart from a short impression from watching some videos of game play, unless I get it to work later today)? However you can see reviews of this game from the Steam community HERE (almost all negative) and see a few video of game play HERE (via the Steam page ), HERE and HERE.

After watching the videos I can see why 'Protect your Planet' has garnered so many negative votes because all you seem to do is click on asteroids heading for earth. Clicking on them destroys them by shattering them to small pieces. If any asteroids hit the planet you lose a life. You get five lives in total; lose all five and you have to start again from scratch....... The game play appears very boring after a few moments becasue there is virtually no variety, just asteroids heading for the planet; that apart from the sizes, have very little in the way of individual asteroids i.e they all look similar. (Even the planet you are protecting looks like a giant lump of rock that is just a larger version of the asteroids). Today's giveaway is a free standing version of the game from Falcoware and does not include a Steam key. As with all Falcoware games, the installed game includes the Falcoware installer that does contain adverts, but these are not the malicious kind and are not installed to your system separately, but are bound to the games Falcoware installer. Adverts are only seen during the games boot sequence and then when you close the game down your browser will be opened to Falcoware's home page. These additions to the game earns cash for both Falcoware and the license holder of the game and is the reason it can be given away free.

Useful Information not related to today's game giveaway:

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